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Many times teachers hide behind “The Department”, “The Standards”, “The Examinations”, and “The Resources” when taken to task about their poor instruction and lack of adequate care for learners and commitment to duty. A lot of public funds are used to finance education. Such huge funding has to be justified through calls for responsibility and accountability in schools, particularly by teachers. There is a general view that if public schools were managed in exactly the same way private companies were managed and the reward and punishment for teachers was on the basis of how much students learnt, teaching and learning would improve in schools. Teachers often see themselves as teaching learners without critically reflecting on the extent to which they are accountable to parents of the learners and to the learners they teach. Such a lack of a complete understanding of the view that teachers as professionals …